Re: [css4-images] element() and compositing layers

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:

> In WebKit at least, I think we'd have to do a software paint for element()
> content, so it doesn't really matter that parts are independently
> composited.
>

That is what we currently do.

This means that we would not render 3d transforms in element(), and
> video playback would perform poorly.
>

We can render everything in our software-only path, including 3D
transforms. Obviously, it is slower.

I have some ideas for how to enable accelerated compositing of element()
when the element's descendants happen to be contiguous in z-order, but we
haven't gotten around to accelerating element() yet.

Rob
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